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From Representation of History to the Living Monument : Memorializing Peasant Revolt and Matija Gubec in Gornja Stubica

This paper problematizes the transformations of the Monument to the Peasant Revolt and Matija Gubec in Gornja Stubica from the perspective of memory studies and festival studies. By contextualizing the functions and usages of the Monument in socialism, as well as in the post- socialist-period, the authors wish to emphasize the interplay between the official politics of the monument and the meanings inscribed in it by its creators on the one hand, and personal narratives evoked by it on the other. The analysis focuses on expressions of embodied and performative memories, observed in various cultural practices triggered by the monument, such as commemorations, celebrations and festivals. In that way, following Erving Goffman’s theoretical framework that deals with the presentation of self in everyday life, the authors discuss to which extent and in which ways performance affects the essence of the monument. They point to the major shift in the role that visitors play when it comes to practices around the monument in socialism and after it: from observers and spectators of the defined memoryscape, they turn into active agents that, by participating in historical reenactments, recreate their own visions of the heroic past.

Monument, Peasant revolt, Matija Gubec, socialism, postsocialism, monument politics, poetics of the monument

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